Aren’t these tulips beautiful! Shameer got them for me for my birthday yesterday. We’re having a little house party today and I made a cacao and coconut cream pie. It’s gluten and dairy free, and the only sweetener is with whole dates. (Although I did use a lot of them) If you are watching your sugar just reduce the amount of dates and amount of cacao powder. I used a lot of both because I like the bitter flavor of dark chocolate and wanted that flavor to stand out, but I had to balance it out with a lot of dates so it would be sweet enough to serve to a group of people expecting dessert.
Cacao and Coconut Cream Pie
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Serves: 8 slices
Ingredients
- 30 medjool dates
- 1 cup of cacao powder
- 1 14 oz can of coconut cream
- 1 cup of light coconut milk
- 1 tbsp of great lakes gelatin
- ¼ cup of water
Instructions
- Prebake a pie crust 15-20 minutes at 350 degrees fahrenheit. I like the Paleo Pie Crust from Elana's Pantry.
- Blend dates, cacoa powder, coconut cream, coconut milk in Vitamix.
- Dissolve gelatin in water slowly. Heat it over the stove until you see steam, don't boil or you will destroy the gelatin.
- Mix mixture from blender into pot with gelatin. Pour into pre-baked pie crust and refrigerate until solid. I would give it a couple hours at least.
This is in the Sunday Social Blog Hop.
This sounds delicious! Visiting from the Sunday Social. 🙂
Thanks! It was delicious, like a chocolate mousse in a pie.
Wow… this looks so good! I'm going to have to make this for my husband (who's always looking for 'legal' sweets) – I think he'd love it. Thanks for sharing it on The Sunday Social.
Hello Lauren, this recipe looks delicious. Can you tell me the difference between Cacao and cocoa ? I'm pinning it !!
Kim ~ This Ole Mom
My fiance loved it! and I will definitely be making it again 🙂
I'm sure you can substitute unsweetened cocoa powder, here is a link for the defininition http://www.joyofbaking.com/cocoa.html but I prefer cacoa powder which is just ground up cacoa beans into a powder form, just to be on the safe side with my dairy allergy.